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The patients embark at Wharves which the Managers
were authorised to provide, by Section 6 of the Diseases
Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1883, now incorporated in the
Public Health (London), Act 1891. These Wharves are
three in number, respectively named North, South, and
West. The North-Wharf is at Blackwall, the SouthWharf
at Rotherhithe, The West-Wharf, at Fulham,
near Wandsworth Bridge, at which, in the event of a widespread
epidemic of small-pox, Kensington patients would
embark for the voyage to the Hospital Ships, but which is
also intended for the accommodation of the West District
generally, has long since been completed ; but hitherto it has
not been found necessary to bring it into use.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMBULANCE
COMMITTEE.
Arrangements in connection with the transit of the sick,
between home and hospital, and hack again, are under the
control of a Committee of the Asylums Board, whose report
comprises an interesting statement of the work carried out
during the past year—nearly double in amount, so far as
regards removal of cases, of any previous year's work. The
removals, upwards of 32,000 in number, including the transfer
of patients from one hospital to another, were effected without
injury to any person. The fever patients removed to the
Managers' Hospitals numbered 16,118, as compared with
5,680,8,235 and 7,725 in the preceding three years respectively.
The average daily removals in the first six months of the
year, were 28.3, and in the last six months 59.5, as compared
with 171 and 25"5 respectively in 1891. The removals of
small-pox patients were 306, as compared with 5, 26, and 64
in the preceding three years respectively. The average length
of journey of the Fever patients removed to Hospital did not
exceed 3½ miles per patient. The number of journeys made
was 17,607, the miles run by the vehicles, 178,638,